The Silent Threat Lurking in Every DEX Trade

If you have ever swapped tokens on a decentralized exchange and noticed you received fewer tokens than expected, you may have been the victim of a sandwich attack — one of the most common forms of MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) exploitation in DeFi.

These attacks are carried out by automated bots (sometimes called "slambots" or "sandwich bots") that monitor the mempool for pending transactions. When they spot your trade, they execute two transactions around yours — buying before you (driving the price up) and selling after you (profiting from the inflated price you paid).

The result? You get a worse price, and the bot pockets the difference. It happens in milliseconds.

How Slippage Tolerance Works

When you make a swap on Jupiter, Raydium, or any Solana DEX, you set a slippage tolerance — the maximum percentage your trade price can move before the transaction is rejected.

• High slippage (5-10%) — Your transaction will almost always go through, but you are giving bots a massive window to exploit you.
• Default slippage (1-2%) — Better, but still leaves room for frontrunning on volatile tokens.
• Low slippage (0.5%) — The sweet spot. Your trade has minimal room for price manipulation, making sandwich attacks unprofitable for bots.

Why 0.5% Is the Magic Number for $CRYPTOK

$CRYPTOK has a 6% buy/sell tax (3% reflections to holders, 3% to the development wallet) but a 0% transfer tax. This means:

• When swapping on a DEX, the 6% tax is already factored into the swap.
• Setting slippage to 0.5% above the tax gives the transaction just enough room to execute while blocking sandwich bots from profiting.
• Most frontrunning bots need at least 1-2% price movement to be profitable — at 0.5% slippage, the math does not work for them.

How to Set Your Slippage on Jupiter

1. Go to jup.ag and connect your wallet
2. Select your swap pair (SOL to CRYPTOK)
3. Click the gear icon in the top-right of the swap card
4. Set slippage to 0.5%
5. For extra protection, enable MEV Protect if available — this routes your transaction through a private mempool

We Have Seen It Happen

In recent weeks, our community has reported instances of trades being frontrun — users buying $CRYPTOK and receiving significantly fewer tokens than the quoted amount. In every case, the user had slippage set to 5% or higher.

After switching to 0.5% slippage:

• Zero reported sandwich attacks
• Trades execute at or near the quoted price
• Transactions still go through reliably

Quick Tips to Stay Safe

• Always use 0.5% slippage when buying or selling $CRYPTOK
• Avoid trading during extreme volatility — bots are most active during pumps
• Use Jupiter MEV Protection — it routes transactions privately
• Never approve unlimited token spending — always set exact amounts
• Check the price impact before confirming — if it is above 1%, something may be wrong

Your money, your tokens, your responsibility. A few seconds adjusting a slider can save you hundreds of dollars. Stay sharp out there.

— The CrypTok Team